Tag: Design
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Layout Design Nearing Completion
After many iterations, track alignments, research, pouring over maps, charts, timetables, and visiting sites of interest I am just about near completed with the track plan for the 2-level layout scheme. The layout specifications are listed here: Name: Norfolk Southern Alabama Great Southern and New Orleans & Northeast DistrictsScale: HO (1:87:1)Layout Size: 39′ 6″ x…
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LDE – NS Oliver Yard – MP NO 195.6 Oliver Junction – MP NO 194.1 with Controlled Interlocking
Oliver Yard (NOPB) with Engine Fueling and Sanding Tower and Oliver Junction – Yard Limit. This section of the layout includes block by block elements between Charters St, Dauphine St, Burgundy St, St. Claude Ave., and Press St., and Homer Plessy Way. Several houses and warehouses are included in this segment, along with some maintenance…
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LDE – Downtown and Riverside New Orleans
Overview of the southern-most point of the layout plan includes the New Orleans Public Belt RR (NOPB-RR) track which parallels with the Mississippi River in downtown New Orleans just outside of the French Quarter and the heart of The Marigny neighborhood. Norfolk Southern (NS) interchange with the NOPB-RR and track turns northward toward Lake Pontchartrain…
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Conceptual Spatial Schematic of Prototype – Modeling the NS-AGS-NONE Railway
It’s been a long time coming since I dismantled my The Piedmont Division Model Railroad in North Carolina in 2017 . We moved back to the Gulf Coast area in 2018 to be closer to our hometown, and tending/caregiving to our aging parents. Six years later, and with things settling down, along with my semi-retirement,…